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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus);
[syn: protoplasm, living substance]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Protoplasm \Pro"to*plasm\, n. [Proto- + Gr. ? form, fr. ? to mold.] (Biol.) The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called " physical basis of life;" the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc. [1913 Webster] Note: The lowest forms of animal and vegetable life (unicellular organisms) consist of simple or unaltered protoplasm; the tissues of the higher organisms, of differentiated protoplasm. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

protoplasm n 1: the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus) [syn: protoplasm, living substance]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "protoplasm": animal cell, bioplast, cell, cellular tissue, cellule, chromatoplasm, coenocyte, corpuscle, cytoplasm, ectoplasm, endoplasm, energid, eucaryotic cell, germ cell, plant cell, plasmodium, procaryotic cell, reticulum, somatic cell, syncytium, trophoplasm